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Dylan Conway a553fda32b fix(napi): fix use-after-free in property names and external buffer lifetime (#26450)
## Summary

- **PROPERTY_NAME_FROM_UTF8 use-after-free:** The macro used
`StringImpl::createWithoutCopying` for ASCII strings, which left
dangling pointers in JSC's atom string table when the caller freed the
input buffer (e.g. napi-rs `CString`). Fixed by using
`Identifier::fromString` which copies only when inserting into the atom
table, but never retains a reference to the caller's buffer.

- **napi_create_external_buffer data lifetime:** `finalize_cb` was
attached via `addFinalizer` (tied to GC of the `JSUint8Array` view)
instead of the `ArrayBuffer` destructor. Extracting `.buffer` and
letting the Buffer get GC'd would free the backing data while the
`ArrayBuffer` still referenced it. Fixed by attaching the destructor to
the `ArrayBuffer` via `createFromBytes`, using an armed
`NapiExternalBufferDestructor` to safely handle the
`JSUint8Array::create` error path.

Closes #26446
Closes #26423

## Test plan

- [x] Added regression test `test_napi_get_named_property_copied_string`
-- strdup/free cycles with GC to reproduce the atom table dangling
pointer
- [x] Added regression test `test_external_buffer_data_lifetime` --
extracts ArrayBuffer, drops Buffer, GCs, verifies data is intact
- [x] Both tests pass with `bun bd test` and match Node.js output via
`checkSameOutput`
- [x] Verified `test_external_buffer_data_lifetime` fails without the
fix (data corrupted) and passes on Node.js
- [x] Verified impit reproducer from #26423 works correctly with the fix

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-01-25 20:11:52 -08:00
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